Creating interactive videos is a new way of learning in the recent times. It has the power to engage users during the learning process. Engagement is achieved by adding contextual help or by adding inline knowledge checks within the video. Interactivity is added to the videos with the help of overlay slides and bookmarks.

Any slide can be marked as overlay slide except for graded question slides, 360 slides and slides containing videos. Also, we can mark important points in the video, known as Bookmarks. Users can navigate to these bookmarks as desired by the author. For example, if user attempts a knowledge check incorrectly, he can be navigated to a certain point in the video which has the correct answer.

Interactive videos in Captivate are supported only for HTML 5 output.

I followed below steps to create an example interactive video. This has been created using Adobe Captivate 2019 release.

• Create a Blank or Responsive project.
• Go to the Toolbar and click Interactive Video.
• In the Insert Video dialog, select YouTube Video and enter example URL.

• Create Knowledge check slides or content slides that you want to mark as overlay.
• Play the video on stage area and determine the points where you would want overlay slides to come up.
• Pause at a particular frame, insert overlay using marker on timeline or using Property Inspector (PI).

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• Select slide that you want to mark as overlay and click Insert.

• Overlay marker gets added to timeline. Users can drag the marker to different points in the video as well. Overlay can be replaced or un-linked from timeline or Property Inspector (PI).

• Background opacity of the overlay slide can be configured from PI, if overlay marker is selected from timeline.

• Added two knowledge check slides and one content slide as overlay.
• Created one bookmark which refers to the point in video, where user needs to be directed if he answers the question incorrectly. This can be configured in quiz PI as shown.

 Sample Interactive Video Preview:

Sample Cptx: blog-interactive-video

Interactive Videos opens up lot of possibilities with usage of overlay and bookmarks. It can set a benchmark in eLearning.